and a nation divided as all sides await tomorrow's health care ruling. our new nbc news/"wall street journal" polls show voters are putting parties over issues. chuck todd with what's at stake. the gun lobby has the fire power going into tomorrow's contempt vote against attorney general eric holder. despite last minute white house efforts to try to avoid a shootout. >> we've given them ample opportunity to comply even as late as yesterday. the white house sat down with some of our staff to outline what they would be willing to do. unfortunately, they're not willing to show the american people the truth about what happened. >> without objection. >> so how many democrats will ignore the white house and take their marching orders from the nra. and good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix today, president obama and mitt romney are all but tied in the new nbc

news/"wall street journal" poll. president obama is ahead 47% to 44%, that's within the margin of error, but after a $25 million ad campaign against romney in battleground states, in those states, the president has widened his lead to eight points. all that could of course change after tomorrow's supreme court ruling on health care. so far, the best on their beats. chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. msnbc political director chuck todd and pete williams, nbc news justice correspondent. chris, let's start with you. the president is targeting the swing states we just talked about in a bus tour. they just announced today they are going out next week. just where is the president going? >> well, i believe he's headed into the rural midwest, which is a place he needs to go. the states that you showed, i would add, those states, the most striking finding i found at least from the nbc/"wall street

journal," i know chuck talked about this so i will defer to chuck but the thing i found, those swing states, he's ahead by more than he is nationally. we always said this is a national election in name only. that is, what matters is the margin in those swing states. you know, i'm from connecticut. president obama is very likely to win connecticut. if he doesn't win connecticut, he's got bigger problems on his hands. the fact that he's ahead by eight in those swing states and only three nationally, i find kind of striking. i know chuck concluded at least part of it's about negative ads. again, i defer to him on that. that's the number i think we should look at. i think we should look more at 50/42. >> in fact, the president is going to ohio and pennsylvania, making your point. chuck, let's go through the numbers. what do you see as the most interesting take-away from this poll? what are they saying in boston and chicago? >> well, i think what it is, you're seeing the first imprints, we've had -- this is two months in a row, by the way.

one of the things we're very careful at with the poll, when we have a subgroup like the swing states subgroup we have been tracking for some time shows significant movement in one direction two months in a row, you know, we don't make a big deal of it the first time but if it's two months in a row, we come back and say you know what, this is significant. it looks like it might be a shift. well, in may, the president led by six points in the swing states. before then, it was pretty even. well, what happened. the last two months, the president has been on the air in a coordinated effort. some negative in may, a lot of negative in june. so when you see the different parts of this, you see the fact that romney's personal negatives have gone up. in fact, they're higher. his negative ratings are higher in the swing states than they are overall, 41% in the swing states, 39% overall, which by the way in and of itself hits and ties his all-time high. the other fascinating thing is that you see a hardening of the two coalitions. you see the president's coalition of african-americans,

hispanics and college educated white voters becoming more for the president than they were even a month ago but with romney, you see improvement for him among white women, among the white suburbs, among white independents, among tea party you're seeing stronger support for him among some of his groups. you're seeing a hardening of the two coalitions in a way that tells you this race may not budge for awhile but do watch the swing states. >> and of course, a lot of this could change as we say after we see the health care decision. pete, let's talk about what the big issue is here for the court. the central core of the case, and how you might see some shifting coalitions among the justices. >> three little words, andrea. to regulate commerce. that's the power the constitution gives to congress. the question the supreme court has to decide is, is that what this law does, is it within congress' power to require everyone to buy insurance or is that unconstitutional. it's all about the mandate and the supreme court, if it finds

the mandate is constitutional, game over. if it finds the mandate is unconstitution unconstitutional, then it must answer the other question, which is how much of the law will fall with the mandate, can any of it be salvaged. now, the other question you asked is i think almost equally important is what the breakdown -- not equally important but very important, is what the breakdown of the justices is. will this be a vote where every justice lines up with the president's party who appointed them, the 5-4 breakdown, or will some of the conservatives vote with the majority if the case is upheld and the other way if the case is struck down. >> interestingly, pete, this connects to the way people will react to the court's decision. >> right. >> pete and chuck and chris, the whole question of the role of government, that's another thing that comes out of the poll when we talk about how people view the role of government. all democrats and all republicans, democrats want the government to do more, republicans feel exactly the opposite. >> it looks like a presidential ballot test, doesn't it?

49/47. this is the fundamental debate, frankly, i would argue that we've been having over the last three or four years. it was the fundamental debate, the role of government and what is, you know, and the swing voters are trying to decide what's the level of government involvement. the degrees. we know the very partisan basis feels one way but i just was fascinated by the polarization that you see even among issues at we ask, where you feel as if people have their red or blue hats on and they're viewing this through that prism. that tells me there's the debate. >> i just wanted to -- i thought that first of all, i loved the poll but that question i really latched on to. if you look at it, the roller coaster you have seen in public opinion about should government do more or less, in 1995 right before bill clinton gave his famous, the era of big government is over speech, you had 62% of people saying government does too much.

fast forward to september 2007, you have 55% of people saying government should do more. now we're kind of back to this balance on the teeter-totter. if you're trying to navigate those waters, i think people don't know what they want out of their government. after hurricane katrina people wanted more government but in the lead up to 2010, people felt like government, health care, auto bailout, t.a.r.p., government was doing too much. it yo-yos back and forth in a fascinating way. it's a great question. >> that's what the supreme court decision is about. this will be the most important ruling in 80 years on the power of government ever since the new deal, on how much power congress gets from those three little words in the constitution. >> we are likely to see, pete, justice roberts defining for quite some time the way he sees his role as umpire, at least that's what he promised in his confirmation hearings. >> right. he said he would call the balls and strikes. it will be interesting to see

whether he's with the majority here if they uphold it, you know. as you understand, the most senior justice in the majority assigns the opinion. if he's in the majority, will he assign it to himself and write it himself? that would be a big deal. >> pete, you're right on top of it all. you are center stage. this is your time. thank you very much. chris cillizza and our friend chuck todd. talks last night at the white house between obama officials and house republicans failed to avert a contempt of congress vote, scheduled vote at least against attorney general eric holder. barring a last minute compromise, that vote is expected tomorrow on the house floor. joining me now are our capitol hill correspondents, kelly o'donnell, luke russert, kelly, the status of these talks. are there likely to be more talks to try to avoid this or -- >> there are no indications yet. no indications yet. but because there is still time, more than 24 hours, that leaves open the door could there be more negotiating and while there is sort of a partisan aspect to

this where people are talking about kind of the public face of it, there has also been a calmer behind the scenes effort to try to resolve this. it hasn't made any real ground up yet but it's still possible. so we do have time but no indications that it will happen. part of what is really at risk here is who is going to blink, and the attorney general has a difficult position in that he has in the past given some false information to congress that was later corrected. that's really the heart of this contempt of congress citation, the larger investigation about what happened in the fast and furious operation is also part of an ongoing thing. but the contempt is really about that. and that's at the heart of this. now, republicans say they would be willing to avoid what would be the first ever sanction of an attorney general in this way, but we don't see anything moving at this point. >> luke, you have been reporting on the influence of the most powerful lobby, the national rifle association. the gun lobby deciding that they

will hold members to account for this vote so they are seeing this as a gun vote and for that reason, many democrats as you report from states where guns are really important, may well vote against the white house. >> absolutely. it's a very fascinating development in this story. we heard this theory floated by darrell issa that in fact, the reason why the white house was not being forthcoming about the fast and furious investigation was because they were trying to showcase the fact that weapons were going across to mexico and that perhaps the public outrage from that would then call for more gun control and assault weapons ban, perhaps. the white house says this is absolutely ridiculous, not true in any capacity. speaker boehner this morning actually distanced himself from this, saying i have never said that, i haven't heard of it but i haven't necessarily seen the documents pertaining to it. all that being said, the nra is going to score this vote and because they are so powerful, you will see these types of members, these blue dog

democrats, a lot of these from blue collar districts, swing districts, that will vote to hold eric holder in contempt because of fear of the nra. i've heard numbers from as low as 25 to perhaps maybe even 35. you are going to see a sizeable amount and that only gives more fuel to the gop fire for carrying this all the way on to the end. >> one more point. the heart of this, there were career atf employees who were responsible for this operation, not political appointees, which is why you had some similar tactics during the bush years and during the obama administration. so the notion that it was politically motivated from the ground is certainly not something that investigators i've talked to here on capitol hill would back up. they don't see it that way. >> before we let you guys go, luke or kelly, what's the latest on student loans? are we going to avert that deadline so all the students don't face this huge increase in interest rates they pay? >> let the best go. >> what we're hearing is that they do have an agreement in principle ready to go. the voting likely on friday.

it would put that off for a year, making it easier for students to know what their interest rate would be, tied to a highway and transportation bill which also includes funding for about three million construction jobs. so they're working on a deadline. looks like it will all stack up on friday for votes before the holiday recess. >> the big question there, keystone pipeline, whether it will be in or not. right now it looks like it will not be in there, they have more relaxed permits in regards to the environment for construction on these jobs created out of the transportation bill. that's a big win for democrats, you could say, but we don't necessarily know what's in the details of how much they gave away in terms of the environmental permits. i'm sure the sierra club will be happy to tell us. >> it's looking like a deal. >> lot of last minute deals before they go away for the july fourth recess. they all seem to get it done before a holiday. >> motivated by deadlines. >> indeed. thank you, kelly. thank you, luke. great to have you both.

up next, obama's war. how in-fighting between the president's foreign policy team among them was a war itself. still ahead, remembering nora. the life and career that brought up hollywood's most memorable moments. [ male announcer ] research suggests the health of our cells plays a key role throughout our entire lives. ♪ one a day men's 50+ is a complete multi-vitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. ♪ it has more of seven antioxidants to support cell health. that's one a day men's 50+ healthy advantage.

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as commander in chief, i have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 u.s. troops to afghanistan. after 18 months, our troops will begin to come home. >> it was that decision that turned afghanistan into obama's war. a conflict begun in 2001 and now costing 2,000 american lives,

$550 billion, $570 billion, and untold numbers of afghan civilian casualties. in a new book, "imperial life in the emerald city" we learn the president's surge was something of a war in and of itself. little america shines a scorching light on the political in-fighting that has marred u.s. progress in afghanistan to this very day. thank you very much for being with us. congratulations on this new book. i don't know how you do it. you go into the field, you find sources and one of the people you clearly spoke to was kyle westin. tell us about kyle westin because he, in your view, represents the best of the u.s. foreign service. often underreported, he was out in the field, he wasn't behind big walls in kabul, he was out in the field not only in afghanistan but before that, in iraq. two years in fallujah. >> that's right. a remarkable figure. really remarkable in the world of our diplomatic corps.

this man, mr. westin, spent seven years between iraq and afghanistan. fallujah, the most dangerous spot in iraq for many, many months, and then two tours in iraq. first being where the 9/11 attacks were planned, then spent a crucial year in helmand province and served really as a voice of conscience both in my book but also as a critical soundingboard for generals and was incredibly influential in helping to shape u.s. policy as it played out over there. understand that war isn't led by generals, it serves a political purpose. he was out there as a political bright spot in what was otherwise a very troubled war. >> he was living among the marines and communicating back home that he did not think that

the policy being debated in washington was going to work. >> that's right. he supported obama's decision to send an initial wave of troops soon after he

biden's warnings seem pretty prescient. >> let's talk about richard holbrook. larger than life figure, tragically lost. as you report, he has always been edgy and difficult for his colleagues and that's both his charm and -- >> yes. >> -- his challenge. he never was accepted by the people, the national security people, around president obama that jim jones, the former advisor, tried to get him fired, hillary clinton defended him. that whole debate with the holbrook pushing for negotiations with the taliban got lost because of his personality and the politics of it and we missed a window. is that -- >> it is. it came down to sheer personality politics. holbrook, this larger than life figure, a real great man of democratic foreign policy with an ego to match, really was not well received by the new team inside the white house. by senior officials at the national security council, by

other members of president obama's inner team, and they wanted to marginalize him. holbrook was protected by his loyal friend, secretary of state hillary clinton. so what happened was for more than a year, both sides just fought very bitterly, very acrimoniously, holbrook would be excluded from meetings, denied the use of government aircraft. holbrook would convene gatherings that didn't have all personnel in them. it was childish. our government is supposed to be better than this. but this in-fighting that i detail came at a real cost. we had a window when we were surging troops in there, when we had real leverage. i'm not trying to say the taliban were waiting there on the other side of the table, you know, ready to negotiate. it was always going to be a tough path to get there. but we could have tried to at least had a unified policy and moved forward with trying to find an honorable way to end this conflict with fewer lives

lost. instead, senior officials of our government who should have been working together on the same team at times were more consumed with fighting one another than fighting against the common enemy. >> the tragedy of afghanistan continues. thank you so much. thanks for being with us. the book is "little america." it is extraordinary. so are you, my friend. >> thank you very much. still ahead, the supreme showdown over health care coming up next. all sides getting ready to fire when the ruling comes down. and we remember nora ephron. >> why is it so hard to be a democrat? >> because they break your heart. because you believe them. because hope springs -- they make promises. hope springs eternal and because i do think that liberals tend to be more romantic. thanks. good morning, students. today we're gonna continue... for a cookout with world champion grill master brett gallaway.

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what are you going to do? everything is my guess. it will be a little messy but embrace the mess. it will be complicated but rejoice in the complications. it will not be anything like what you think it's going to be like, but surprises are good for you. and don't be frightened. you can always change yourmind. i know. i've had four careers and three husbands. >> that was nora ephron. she did do it all and it was messy at times. she was at her alma mater, she was the class of '62, speaking to the graduating class of 1996. the trail blazing film maker, humorist and author died of pneumonia brought on by leukemia at 71 years old. it was a shock even to some friends who did not know she was so seriously ill. today, a life lived well, remembered by friends and fans

alike, celebrating a gifted story teller with a unique and very personal voice. joining me now, george stevens jr., a writer, director and emmy award winning producer, founder of the american film institute and the executive producer of the annual kennedy center honors as well as a long-time friend of nora ephron and sally quinn, friend of nora's for 45 years. sally, 45 years is a long time to know anyone. nora ephron was constantly changing, learning and delighting in life and in herself and in her friends. one of the things that strikes me so much knowing her only as well as i do, was that she was such a woman's woman as well, such a good girlfriend, so giving and generous even to people who were casual acquaintances. >> i think that's one of the things people didn't know very much about her, she was a girl's girl in a lot of ways.

nothing she loved better than going shopping or antiquing or talking about, you know, different color shoes or underwear or whatever. she was always sending presents that would shock you, they were so charming and so feminine. but she had this reputation for being this tough, sharp, hard-hitting woman director and that really was part of who she was but it wasn't the real nora. she was a sentimental slob and all you have to do is look at her movies to see that. >> and in fact, the movies. george, you as a film producer, as a friend of nora's, the voice that we as viewers and fans saw, how unique was that, a woman in your business striking out and coming up with such wonderful story telling. >> it really is quite unique.

she considered herself a word person, not a picture person. her parents were both screen writers, phoebe, her mother, gave her two pieces of advice. one is that if you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you but if you slip on a banana peel and don't talk about it, it becomes your story and you become the heroine of slipping on a banana peel. the other was that everything is copy and everything that nora saw in one way or another ended up in a book, in a movie, and she did it -- or essays, and even if it was painful, and as you know, she was six months pregnant when she had her divorce and she turned it into a novel called "heartburn" and she

turned the novel into a screenplay in which nora was played by meryl streep. >> you never knew with nora when you were going to end up in one of her movies. and she had a scene in which she said i was sally in "when harry met sally" and richard cohen was harry. i saw some similarities but -- and then she said that i was betty in "heartburn" and then she used our dog, sparky, in the movie -- >> every aspect of life, her life and other people's lives, became -- >> material. all material. yeah. >> take us to the kennedy center honors and her tribute to meryl streep. she gave the toast this year to meryl streep who of course played her in "heartburn," the nora character, with the heartbreak of divorce and the

wonderful novel that she wrote about it and then created the film, the screenplay. she gave a tribute to meryl streep, her friend and collaborator. tell us about that toast. >> i can't recite it word for word but she said meryl has played karen silkwood, ethel rosenberg, carrie fisher, margaret thatcher and me, referring to herself, and then she turned to secretary clinton and she said inevitably, and of course everybody started laughing, and she said to the secretary, she said you may have thought she was really charming tonight when she was talking to you but she was silking you up. she said when you end up on the screen, you're going to find out that she's better at being you than you are. >> which is exactly the acting magic, the alchemy of meryl streep. also, the fact she was a woman

in a man's world, and she always related to the issue of women. this is another part of her address at wellesley college in 1996. >> one of the things people always say to you when you get upset is don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on in the world and i beg you to take it personally. understand this. every attack on hillary clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you. >> that of course is also hillary's alma mater. it was when hillary was first lady. but she was very political. no question she was a political figure and saw things through that prism. the other thing about nora ephron which i find so striking, she did this in a man's world, george. how many women screenwriters, directors. she started as a journalist writing for "newsweek," then the "new york post" when women did

not get those jobs, and then "esquire" and "new york" magazine came here. but breaking into film, how hard was that? >> she said she wrote a script called "my blue heaven" and she saw it and it was pretty terrible and she said i just thought i could have done it as badly as he did. and gotten the $2.5 million. so she decided to be a director and she became a very good one. >> but you know, a lot of men were afraid of nora. when you say she did it in a man's world, she wasn't afraid of men and she was not afraid to sort of assert herself in a way that so often women will do, will sort of sit back or hang back or not say what they think. nora said what she thought and most of the time, she was right. after listening to nora's ideas and thoughts and what she wrote and what she did, people just decided, you know, we'll go with nora. >> let's talk about what she

said herself, that she would miss and wouldn't miss. she said that she will miss first of all, my kids, nick, her husband, pie. what she won't miss, dry skin, the sound of a vacuum cleaner and panels on women in film, among others. very clearly, she had that wry sense of humor. she saw the everyday facts of life. she wrote a book about her neck which was her take on aging. >> she said something to me, i think it was six years ago that so stuck with me. it was the end, it was in august, and she said i get so sad at the end of august and i said why. she said it's the end of summer and it reminds me that life's not going on forever. >> she wrote that in her book. it was something very poignant because she had this condition for six years. >> and lived with it but didn't

want to talk about it. >> didn't tell a soul. well, there were a few people who knew about it, knew she had a condition and she was not well, but i remember reading "i feel bad about my neck" and thinking there was an underlying sadness in the book. when she wrote that, about the summer, because we always spent the summer together because we had houses right across the street from each other in east hampton, there used to be this great joy and then suddenly, it wasn't there anymore. >> what meryl streep said in her statement, she fought fast, loved new ideas, processed swiftly, decided what was valuable and what was not with clarity. it's hard to credit how very smart she was because she was always feminine and funny. the sharpness of mind softened and smoothed by genuine charm. >> yeah. well, you know, when you asked earlier about what kind of a girlfriend she was, when i got

pregnant, she had already had jacob and max and i was an older mother. she went with me to have amniocentesis and held my hand because i'm needle-phobic and ultimately became my son's godmother. she was always, you know, there was this motherly side of nora that people didn't see very often because she was working. but she was very realistic about having it all and doing it all. >> what she said to the wellesley graduates. >> she was realistic about it. she said to them you can do it all, you may not be able to have it all. you can't do it all at one time. she used to talk about that. sometimes i focus on my husband, sometimes on my children, sometimes on my career, but i can't do all three at the same time equally well. >> thank you for remembering. we have to leave it there. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] research suggests the health of our cells plays a key role

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we are following big news coming up in the next hour. the nra is now involved in tomorrow's vote to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt. right now, congress is setting the rules for that vote and as many as 35 democrats could defect from the party and vote to hold the attorney general in contempt. why is the nra involved now and is this proof that some have alleged this is partisan politics? plus nba legend and business icon magic johnson joins "news nation" talking about his latest business venture and he has advice for people who want to start their own business in this economy. activists, experts, millions of american families are breaking for tomorrow's supreme court ruling, the big ruling on health care reform. the director of the congressional budget office under president george w. bush, now president of the american action forum, joins at least three amicus briefs challenging the law. ron pollack is part of the group

families usa. great to see you both. what's at stake here, ron, if this gets overturned? >> well, what's really at stake is the peace of mind of families across the country. what the affordable care act does is provide peace of mind in a variety of ways. it will add health coverage for tens of millions of people, it provides subsidies for middle class families so that they can afford health coverage, it expands the safety net for low income families, it prevents insurance companies from perpetuating some of the practices that i think people are most worried about, someone's got a pre-existing condition, can't get health coverage, like a child with asthma or diabetes. the affordable care act stops that from continuing, it stops having insurors charge discriminatory premiums based on health status. women will no longer be charged a discriminatory premium. small businesses get tax

credits, seniors will get relief and this big coverage gap they experience with prescription drugs, they will get preventive care services for free. all these different ways will provide peace of mind for america's families and obviously if the affordable care act is struck in some way, some of these things could go. >> doug, what's your best case against it? >> i think the american people have been clear in their views of this. for two years now it has been an extremely unpopular law. americans see it as a vast government overreach. they -- >> that doesn't mean it's illegal, though. what is the legal argument against it? >> the legal argument against it starts with the individual mandate, in particular, a compulsion to engage in commerce as somehow being acceptable under the commerce clause. if that's overturned, that will be the correct legal and i think policy decision but that's not the end of the debate, because indeed there is so much more in the affordable care act that americans have now come to understand and voiced their displeasure about. the loss of private coverage,

the vast expansion in spending, government intrusion and a legacy of debt for the next generation. when they see those things, they recognize that the supreme court is not the end. it's important but there's a lot more to be done in the health area. >> what do you do if it is overturned? >> well, it's going to be a very sad moment for families across the country, because these protections and benefits would be lost. i have to say that this mandate issue is controversial but all the different things that i just described which really are at the heart of the affordable care act, those things are very popular. now, a lot of people have not yet seen the benefits of this because much of this goes into effect in january 2014. those people who are getting some of these benefits, they really like it so right now, children can't be denied health coverage due to a pre-existing condition, there's no longer a lifetime cap in what an insurance company pays out. there's a whole bunch of things.

as people feel those things, they know this is going to be helpful to their families. >> to ron's point, in 2009, americans wanted health care reform that did two things. that would provide quality care at a lower cost and which would give them greater affordable insurance options. the affordable act clearly doesn't mean the first test. no one thinks it's ultimately going to provide quality karat lower cost and the insurance possibilities of losing your private coverage are troubling to people. i think that is the lesson which is regardless what the supreme court does, there's still an agenda for health care reform in the united states that meets what the people in the united states want and deserve. >> doug and ron, thank you very much. great tag team. stay with msnbc for nonstop coverage of tomorrow's ruling. and join our conversation usingherent hc ms nbc. warren buffett teamed up with john bon jovi to close out

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>> and i just got an e-mail from someone suggesting to me what if there is a delayed decision and they defer it all? >> i can't take it. >> just be watching tomorrow. and thank you, chris. than does it for usth for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." speaking of the show, we'll have reaction to the supreme court decision with rachel maddow,

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hi, everyone. i'm tamron hall. "news nation" is following breaking news right now. a house committee is meeting to determine the rules for tomorrow's contempt vote for attorney general eric holder. as up to 35 democrats may defect and side with